Senate Republicans have drafted a Homeland Security spending bill that includes the full $1.6 billion President Donald Trump wants for a wall at the Mexican border, increasing the chances of a shutdown fight before current government funding runs out Dec. 8.

Bill author Senator John Boozman of Arkansas told reporters Tuesday the border wall funds would be resolved in a giant trillion-dollar spending bill in December, along with the issue of whether to continue work permits for immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children, known as Dreamers.

"That will be part of the negotiations," he said. "I think at the end of the day, the president is going in insist that the border funding be there."

Boozman said the spending bill would direct construction to the areas on the border where the most human trafficking occurs. A wall along the entire border would be debated later, he said.

Democrats last week called the year-end spending bill a chance to restore Obamacare insurance subsidies, and theyve also discussed using it to protect Dreamers from deportation. Because Senate Democrats have the power to filibuster government funding bills, the disputes over immigration, the border wall and Obamacare make the possibility of a shutdown fight very real.

The Homeland Security spending bill was set to be voted on in committee this week, though that has been postponed because of the illness of Appropriations Chairman Thad Cochran of Mississippi.

For the Democrats, they are HELL-BENT on preventing the Wall, not because the wall will help control Illegal Immigration, but because their entire 2018 strategy for Congress (and 2020 at all levels) absolutely depends on Democrats (along with NeverTrumpers) being able to tell us conservatives that “TRUMP LIED TO YOU” regarding the border wall (...and therefore vote Democrat, since Trump is a phony, or don’t bother voting, either way).

And the Democrats WILL SHUTDOWN the government to prevent Trump’s victory here (and they do not give a shit about the Dreamers, not one bit...privately I suspect many of them are sick of the their attitude and would also like them gone). That is the ONE ISSUE they will die for.

So the REAL QUESTION is how far they’ll go with the shutdown and whether Trump and the Republicans will be able to frame it correctly, which goes like this:

“The reason your precious government is shutdown is to prevent Trump from building a wall to stop Illegal Immigration.”

To us, it seems like a NO-BRAINER VICTORY for our side, but to our neutered bunch in Congress, they likely don’t think they can win here and are shaking in their pants.

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/111-2009/s396
Not a single RINO voted for it.
But before we get all misty, it’s because they knew the `rats had the votes. The Repugnant squishes could tell the folks back home they done good.
And for seven years they moaned about how they wished they could repeal it, but when the rubber hit the road, they punked.
Kill the GOP-e next year. What good are they?
No deals. A wall, all the way from San Diego to Harlingen. No more DACAns. No more tax dollars down the Obamacare rathole. Permanent furloughs for the “non-essential”.
Let it burn.

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